[Libreoffice-qa] [ANN] LibreOffice 3.4.6 RC2 test builds available

[Rainer_Bielefeld]

Fridrich Strba schrieb:

for 3.4.6 RC2, we're now uploading builds to a public (but
non-mirrored - so don't spread news too widely!) place, as soon as
they're available. Grab them here:

If you've a bit of time, please give them a try& report *critical*
bugs not yet in bugzilla here,

Hi,

we had exactly 0 reports for 3.4.6 RC1, and I doubt that anybody will do systematic tests with RC2 (I won't do either).

We still have 45 unfixed regressions compared to 3.3, Lifecycle of 3.4 will end with 3.4.6(?), so this version is more or less useless for most (or at least very many) 3.3 or 3.4 users. Who would want to test a car when he knows that still 1 tire is flat and never will be repaired? Although 3 tires have been repaired, that car will be completely useless forever.

It's my belief that we will have to rethink our release concept.

Please excuse me that I can't tell anything more enthusiastic.

Best regards

Rainer

[Rainer_Bielefeld]

Pedro Lino schrieb:

Maybe branch 3.4.x should continue to be updated (in the same way that
Mozilla keeps fixing bugs in version 3.6.x,

Hi,

Yes, something like that would be great, but we should not underrate the work that such a proceeding would cost. But I believe I we have some kind of guarantee that fixes will be introduced (except we have a really good reason for some bugs not to do so), we will be able to encourage more volunteers for tests.

CU

Rainer

[Petr_Mladek]

Pedro Lino píše v Čt 15. 03. 2012 v 12:31 +0000:

But SUSE released version 3.4.2 while TDF is already at 3.5.1. Doesn't
that show a little about the importance of stability?

We have had 3.4.4 in the LibreOffice:Stable project for a long time. I
have just pushed there 3.4.5 which actually have all fixes from 3.4.6.

We still do not have 3.5 packages for openSUSE because I spend most of
my time on upstream release. I need few days to get working packages for
this bigger update and I have only few hours every week.

To be honest, I am surprised how good 3.5 is. I expected that people
would prefer 3.4.6 over 3.5.1 and did not set my priorities well.

Please, do not take this that we do not take care about openSUSE/SUSE
users. We do a lot of things for them. It is only about my packaging
work and about that I underestimated the demand for 3.5.

Best Regards,
Petr

[Petr_Mladek]

Pedro Lino píše v Čt 15. 03. 2012 v 17:40 +0000:

Hi Petr, all

        Please, do not take this that we do not take care about
        openSUSE/SUSE
        users. We do a lot of things for them. It is only about my
        packaging
        work and about that I underestimated the demand for 3.5.

Actually I was talking about SUSE LibreOffice for Windows (which is
apparently a one-off unsupported release created for the Intel AppUp
store)

Ah this one. To be honest, I was not involved into this release because
I work mostly on our Linux products. I am not sure how complicated is
the process to get a software there. I guess that it is more complex
that uploading on servers that are under control of the document
foundation. So, I would expect a delay.

Also I am not familiar with this store and I am not sure what people are
using it. Note that we clearly state that .0 release is for enthusiasts.
More conservative users should wait for a later bugfix release. I guess
that the App store is for more conservative users, so I would not
expect .0 release there

Heh, 3.5.0 was quite good in the end. Thank you and many other people
for all the great work.

Best Regards,
Petr